legendary trader

Chapter 551

The main auction house of Christie's Auction House on St. John's Street is the largest auction house of Christie's Auction Company in England. It is generally used to hold auctions of important items. It is an ancient building built in the last century.

The exterior of the whole building reflects a sense of elegance, showing the solemnity and nobility of its architecture, with outstanding temperament, and a sense of grandeur at a glance.

After getting off the car, Chen Fan and his party stood outside the building for a long time, quietly watching the building full of British style.

Seeing Chen Fan's realization, Liu Ying and Zheng Xiaopang, who had been with him for a long time, unconsciously began to speculate whether he had started to make up his mind to buy some real estate in England.

Although it is also known as the gathering place of the world's richest people, and it is said that the density of billionaires living here is even higher than that of York City, the United States, which is the global financial center, Zheng Xiaopang scoffs at buying properties here.

England, the small island country, if it wasn't for being poor and crazy to develop the pirate industry and earn the first pot of gold by using all kinds of indiscriminate means, then it would be like today's underworld when they earn enough money to go ashore to launder the white money, and then transfer the black money It was used to develop commerce, relying on its strong sea power to lay the foundation for the so-called British Empire's strong rise, once dominating the world, and crushing the Ming Empire on the other side of the blue star.

It has to be said that the commercial development of Huaguo was slow at the beginning. When the European continent launched a vigorous industrial revolution, Huaguo was still enjoying life in comfort, especially the domestic merchant groups. Find a spokesperson for your own interests by means, and enter the court to speak out for your interests.

The war of words about commercial taxation has been fought for many years, dragging the supposedly rich Ming Empire to the point where it is stretched and struggling, and its finances are on the verge of collapse.

After the businessmen obtained a huge amount of wealth, they did not invest the money in the fields of scientific research and production, but did their best to spend extravagantly.

When Europe drove industry through commerce and trade, and industry boosted business prosperity, the Ming Empire declined in an all-round way. Huaguo's best-selling products such as cloth and tea were suppressed by Europe's industrialized products, and the end was extremely miserable.

But fortunately, the business group came to their senses soon after the shock, and then invested money in technology research and development to catch up. Afterwards, a full-scale war broke out in the world because of the struggle between the two groups in business interests between the East and the West. The world's most powerful empire, the Ming Empire, also collapsed due to finances during the war, and a new republic was established.

Zheng Xiaopang's guess was a little bit right. When he saw this exotic building, Chen Fan really moved his mind and wanted to buy a house here, but he soon came back to his senses. Smile when no one is paying attention, this place is too far away from Huaguo, even if you buy it, you don’t have time to come and live here.

Although I took a private jet when I came here, it is not a pleasant thing to stay in the small cabin for more than ten hours.

"Let's go in." Chen Fan turned around and said to Liu Ying and Zheng Xiaopang, and then quickly walked into the gate.

The building is decorated in a traditional British style. Although many modern elements have been added, the interior decoration still reveals a noble and elegant form of decoration.

Most of the people who came here at this time came for this afternoon's auction. Following the bustling crowd, Chen Fan and the others walked into the auction house of Christie's Auction Company.

The layout of the Spring Festival auction house that Chen Fan participated in is similar. There is a table in the middle of the front of the big auction house, but it is not tall. There are tables and chairs on it. It should be where the auctioneer is. There is a white screen on the wall behind it. , should be used in conjunction with the slide projector placed on the table, on which photos of the lot can be displayed.

It was still early, and Liu Ying had already gone to collect the sign. Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang went directly to the exhibition room. They were not interested in other exhibits, and they went straight to the showcase where the large sapphire was placed.

This is an unpolished gemstone, which looks translucent, but under the illumination of several sets of spotlights in the showcase, it produces a starlight effect. It should be a dazzling treasure after processing, no wonder Zheng Xiaopang paid so much attention to this thing, it looked really different from the gems Chen Fan had seen before, it was so big.

For some reason, Chen Fan took a look and then looked away. His eyes widened in all directions, focusing on the surrounding cameras and other security equipment, as well as the positions of the on-site security and service personnel.

When Chen Fan realized that his behavior was a bit inappropriate, he just laughed at himself secretly. It seemed that he really had the talent to commit crimes, and he unconsciously came up with such thoughts in such a public place.

Ignoring the service staff standing behind the display case, Zheng Xiaopang circled around the display case without stopping for a few times.

Chen Fan was not in the mood to continue looking at other people's things. Although it looked good, he even thought that such things should be kept in a natural state to look better, but gems cannot be worn without processing. Even Chen Fan felt that this so-called no Polished gemstones must have been treated, otherwise how could the naturally formed appearance be so beautiful.

What he doesn't know is that this is indeed the natural appearance of this gemstone, but the placement method and the position of the spotlights have been carefully determined to give the audience the best visual experience.

There are quite a few people around the sapphire showcase, and it seems that many people are here for this thing. Chen Fan watched quietly for a while, and felt that Zheng Xiaopang was going to lose money this time. Fortunately, Fatty Not only is he young and physically strong, but his physique is considered so-so among these Europeans, so he can squeeze out the onlookers and circle around the showcase.

Chen Fan was bored, so he began to look at other exhibits around him. The so-called oil paintings on the wall couldn't be understood, let alone abstract works. Chen Fan couldn't understand them at all, but he could understand some realistic paintings. , because I feel that the painters are good, much better than those Chinese paintings I have seen in China.

After all, traditional Chinese painting does not pay much attention to perspective, so whether it is landscapes or characters, it does not feel vivid enough. The paintings are beautiful but not real people. Compared with the large number of oil paintings hanging in the exhibition hall, it feels much worse.

However, Chen Fan still noticed that there were also two Chinese paintings in the exhibition hall, but there were only a few spectators around. It was obvious that Europeans were not interested in Chinese paintings.

Chen Fan saw that Zheng Xiaopang was excited to watch here, and he didn't bother him, so he started to wander around the exhibition hall until Liu Ying got the number plate and came over.
(End of this chapter)